VP Product

Checkatrade

VP Product responsible for product strategy and AI integration at Checkatrade, the UK’s leading home services platform. Driving growth and innovation in a two-sided marketplace.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timeMoorgate London • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Setting and owning the multi-year product vision and roadmap — translating Checkatrade’s growth ambitions into a clear, prioritised strategy that the whole business can get behind.
Leading, coaching and growing all Product Managers across the business — building a culture of ownership, curiosity, and pace, and creating the conditions for PMs to do their best work.
Driving rigorous prioritisation and planning — balancing short-term commercial impact with long-term platform investment, and keeping the organisation moving at pace.
Leading the integration of AI and machine learning across the product — from search and matching to personalisation and automation — identifying where these tools can genuinely unlock step-change improvements in experience and efficiency.
Partnering closely with Marketing, Engineering, Design, Data, and Commercial teams to make sure product decisions are grounded in real user needs and real business outcomes.
Representing the product function in board and investor conversations — communicating roadmap, progress, and trade-offs with clarity and confidence.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A solid background in senior product leadership — you’ve owned product direction end-to-end and built high-performing PM teams from the ground up.
Proven experience in a two-sided marketplace or platform business — you understand supply and demand dynamics, network effects, and what it actually takes to grow a marketplace.
Demonstrable experience building and shipping AI-powered product features — from concept through to production, with a clear view on where the technology adds genuine value versus noise.
Strong commercial acumen and the ability to connect product decisions to revenue, retention, and growth — combined with exceptional communication skills that work equally well with a cross-functional team or a board room.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary + annual bonus
Employee Share Programme
Health, well-being and learning support
Gym membership, Smart Tech Scheme and Cycle Scheme
Birthday/Special day leave
Buy & sell holiday scheme
1 week’s paid charity leave and much more!

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Hard Skills & Tools

Product Vision DevelopmentRoadmap PrioritizationAI IntegrationMachine Learning ApplicationProduct Management

Soft Skills

CoachingCommunicationLeadershipCuriosityOwnership